Robber who duct-taped 2 women gets 10 years probation

Published 4:12pm Thursday, October 11, 2012
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ALBERT LEA — One of two Iowa men charged with robbing, duct-taping and then dumping two women in Albert Lea last November was sentenced to probation this week in Freeborn County District Court.experimental

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Trayvon Marquis Forrest, 23, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, pleaded guilty in July to one count of simple robbery, a felony, as part of a plea agreement with his lawyer and the Freeborn County Attorney’s Office.

In Freeborn County court Monday, Judge Steve Schwab sentenced Forrest to 10 years of probation.

According to court documents, Forrest and co-defendant Michael Lee Kraft, 18, also of Fort Dodge, gave two 18-year-old women from Wisconsin a ride on Interstate 35 when Forrest grabbed the women by the throats, hit them in the face and then wrapped duct tape over their mouth and eyes.

Forrest was a passenger in the car.

Court documents state that after about five minutes, the car came to a stop in Albert Lea, and the two men reportedly forced the women out of the car and drove away.

The women ran to the A-Lea Apartments on Jansen Street, where they called police. The two men reportedly stole more than $2,000 in cash, along with purses and suitcases.

Kraft has not yet entered a plea and is scheduled for a jury trial Jan. 29, 2013.

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  • Austin2Arizona

    Seriously? Probation? Should have received jail time. Slap on the wrist.

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  • Gbug

    What they need to do is get some boot camps going and very strict discipline! This guy will probably try to do something like this again in the future knowing he only got probation. Jail isn’t the answer for most of these crimes (except severe cases) people commit. All it does is cost the tax payers more money to house and feed them. If we are going to pay for them make sure they get something out of it. Discipline, respect, and how to be a law abiding citizen. My opinion is they need to build work camps for these kind. It would put a lot of people to work, and with the right people running the show teach these criminals that crime doesn’t pay!

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    • leftthehatebehind

      They do have boot camp for drug offenders called CIP Challenge Incarceration Program (which is a very good program and is quite successful), but you are right, they need one for people who commit crimes like this too.

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  • cooper

    I wonder if you two would say the same thing if it were your daughters that were kidnaped and taped. Then left.

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  • Gbug

    Yeah I would have a lot to say about it if it was my daughters and would want to take care of the problem myself. But the last time I knew that is why we have “laws” to go by. Unfortunately, putting these kind in jail is going to do nothing! The jails are full and what good is it doing? Most of us are taxpayers and my

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  • Gbug

    (sorry to those that read these my computer is acting up) and myself would rather pay (since we are anyways) to discipline them and rehabilitate them then to pay for them to sit behind bars and watch tv, play basketball and have to much time on their hands to think! Instead, most of these people committing crimes like this don’t know what a days worth of work is. So very strict boot camps or other such programs would do them good! I just want to make it clear I am not happy he only got 10 yrs. probation. But what the law does and how we think it should be handled is two different issues.

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